Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 5, 1898

Mr. Hunt to Mr. Day.

Consulate of the United States,
Antigua, West Indies, May 2, 1898.

No. 12.]

Sir: I have the honor to forward, inclosed herewith, a copy² of an extraordinary issue of the official gazette of the Leeward Islands, issued under date of April 23 and furnished by courtesy to this consulate on the 30th, containing the text of the proclamation of neutrality issued by His Excellency Sir Francis Fleming, governor of these colonial possessions, upon the announcement that war had been declared by the Government of the United States against that of Spain; and further containing the rules and regulations for the governance of the war ships of either belligerent in the waters of the islands of this colony.

I have, etc.,

Henry M. Hunt,
United States Consul.

2. Not printed. Proclamation, except as to preamble, is in the same terms, mutatis mutandis, as that of Great Britain, see page 865.